Then sharp tongues of lightning darted down with terrific force, and the storm with all its fury burst upon the doomed cities.
And Shakespeare tells of finding 'tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
See that big boomer there with the red tongues jumping up?
He looked as she directed towards the big column of smoke, which suddenly sprang up, as it were, from a bed of writhing, twisting tongues of flame.
Bertrade de Montfort did not know how to answer so ridiculous a sophistry; and, truth to tell, she was more than pleased to hear from the lips of Roger de Conde what bored her on the tongues of other men.
Hour after hour passed: midnight was proclaimed by the iron tongues of the thousand towers of this mighty city;—and I sank exhausted on the step of a door in Gerrard Street, Soho.
Castelcicala weeps over the bloody graves of her patriots; and thousands of tongues are familiar with the name of Richard Markham.
Across the hills they went, their little piping tongues echoing slowly as they nosed along.
Then the clamoring tonguesof the beagles thrilled me as of old, as the game little fellows came down the slope of the hill.
The fact that Flagg was sending her away in his own hitch stirred their curiosity and had considerable to do with keeping their rude tongues off a person who had evidently come to an understanding with the master of the big house.
You and Flagg better keep your tongues off that young lady.
Comparative philology has recently shown that human speech is polyphyletic in origin; that we must distinguish several (probably many) different primitive tongues that were developed independently.
I want men who can hold their tongues and be relied upon.
You get them well, or try to help them, and when they see you they stick out their tongues at you!
They entered through keyholes and chinks of doors and windows; they crept like serpents and stank like mice; they had lolling tongues like hungry dogs.
If lying tongues ever provoke her as lying tongues provoked her mother, she will follow her mother's example.
They use a good deal of gesticulation, and are exceedingly animated, saying with their might what their tongues find to say.
They run on, in a low, guttural, monotonous sort of chant, their lips and tongues seeming hardly to move, and the sounds modulated solely in the throat.
Under the shadow of his crimes thousands of fortunes have been made; and therefore thousands of tongues are employed to justify the means by which these fortunes were made.
Nor does his happiness increase when he watches the whites of the eyes of three hundred six-foot fiends upon whose beards the foam is lying, upon whose tongues is a roar of wrath, and in whose hands are yard-long knives.
The science oftongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.
The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.
Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame.
The confusion of tongues was a mark of separation.
Adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss into madness.
How far this accusation was true, we shall not attempt to say, but, doubtless, there were not wanting many tongues to spread slanderous reports.
When this work was uncovered, it was seen that Sebastiano had done well, although he had toiled much over painting it, so that the evil tongues were silenced and there were few who found fault with him.
Patches and slender tongues of woodland occur below the main timber line and patches of grassland above it.
When dumb grow tongues of men that on such love would dwell, Why should a tongue-cleft pen by babbling strive to tell?
He who has loved relates an endless tale: Here the most eloquent of tongues must fail.
XXXV Now on the rose's palm the cup with limpid wine is brimming, And with a hundred thousand tongues the bird her praise is hymning.
Soon as these words had parted from his lips, Words impious, and insulting to high heaven, His earthly grandeur faded--then all tongues Grew clamorous and bold.
The miracle of tongues was a type of the effect of the truth in penetrating the mind and heart of different nationalities.
That which has contributed to preserve the close homogeneity among these tongues is, that they have little power of growth or development.
There have been, perhaps, other scholars who have known as manytongues as this.
Possibly there were in Philippi some sharp tongues and envious spirits, who needed the exhortation.
And so you may speak of Him without speaking, and though you have no gift of tongues the night may be filled with music, and your lives be eloquent of Christ.
Knees bent and tongues confessing the absolute dominion of Jesus Christ could only be offence and sin if He were not one with the Father.
After a while, tongues of fire appeared here and there over the houses.
Sweat poured from us, and our tongues cleaved to the roofs of our mouths.
All were dressed in holiday clothes, all tongues spoke, all eyes laughed; you might have thought there was not a heavy heart amongst them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tongues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
